labem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →labo, labare, labavi, labatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
totter, be ready to fall; begin to sink; give way; waver, decline, sink; err;
sg. pres. act. subj. 1st - Entry →labes, labis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
landslip/subsidence; disaster/debacle; fault/defect/blot/stain/blemish/dishonor;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...igitur magni quoque circum moenia mundi expugnata dabunt labem putrisque ruinas; omnia debet enim cibus integrare novando..."Satura II
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...indomitus libertatisque magister, Cretice, perluces. dedit hanc contagio labem et dabit in plures, sicut grex totus in agris..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...minis non cessit animus: uim tamen corpus tulit. labem hanc pudoris eluet noster cruor. Th. Quis, ede, nostri..."
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...viso repetunt incendia ferro. ast aliae Thressas labem causamque furorum diripiunt: mixti gemitus clamorque precantum barbarus ignotaeque implebant..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...donec longa dies perfecto temporis orbe concretam exemit labem, purumque relinquit aetherium sensum atque aurai simplicis ignem..."Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caede subit extemplo animum, in se nimirum receptam labem, quae Euandri fuisset; ab illo Delphis uolneratum Eumenen..."Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...parricidii et reum, aut conficti aut admissi criminis labem apud meos inuenturus. iam pridem quidem hanc procellam imminentem..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...circa urbem solo luctari aut in urbe insidentem labem crescentis in dies fenoris pati? Haec agitata occultis coniurationibus..."